NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tigress Financial Partners LLC, a leading women-owned institutional
FINRA registered broker-dealer, announced today that it has entered into
a strategic partnership with BCS Prime Brokerage Limited (BCS UK), in
the UK, part of BCS Global Markets, to jointly market capital markets,
investment banking, credit facilities, research, asset management and
global wealth management services to institutional and high net worth
clients in U.S. and global markets. As part of the transaction BCS UK
invested directly in Tigress Financial Partners in addition to injecting
substantial regulatory capital into the broker dealer.

As a women-owned broker dealer, Tigress Financial Partners brings
diversity to the BCS Group Companies, along with the ability to expand
domestic U.S. capital markets and investment banking relationships. The
strength of BCS in international origination, international trade
execution and a multi-country distribution network enhances Tigress
Financial Partners’ access to global markets squarely positioning
Tigress Financial Partners with the most expansive international
distribution platform among minority and woman owned broker dealers,
consisting of more than 300,000 clients in London, Moscow, Cyprus and
around the world.

“It is our distinct privilege to be associated with BCS,” said Cynthia
DiBartolo, Esq., Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of Tigress
Financial Partners LLC. “The ability to leverage a stronger regulatory
capital position combined with the unique transactional access we bring
as a women-owned firm, together with international breadth and depth of
BCS will benefit both firms immensely. This extraordinary partnership
also allows Tigress to instantly expand to an international trade
platform, as well as introduce competitive BCS credit facilities and
high-end solutions to our institutional and corporate clients. Tigress
and BCS appreciate the guidance we received from FINRA with respect to
facilitating this complex transaction.”

“BCS is looking forward to aligning with Tigress Financial Partners,”
said Gary Esayian, Chief Executive Officer of BCS Americas, Inc., who
will assume a seat on Tigress Financial Partners Board of Directors. “We
value diversity and by working closely with Tigress Financial Partners
will accelerate our U.S. capital markets agenda and allow our
international professionals access to Tigress Financial Partners,
proprietary high-quality institutional research, along with streamlined
access to the Tigress Asset Management and the robust Tigress Offshore
Platforms.”

“BCS Global Markets has a powerful international platform that will be
enhanced by our relationship with Tigress Financial Partners,” said
Bradley Duke, Chief Executive Officer of BCS Prime Brokerage Limited.
“The strengths we each bring to the table and the working relationship
between our respective highly skilled industry professionals will allow
us each to expand our product offerings for the benefit of our clients
around the world.”

Tigress Financial Partners provides its services globally to corporate
entities, institutional investors, high-net worth individual investors
in Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Latin America, Caribbean and North
America, as well as servicing US public and private pensions, federal,
state and municipal governments.

Tigress Financial Partners LLC, a national certified Woman-Owned
Business Enterprise by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council,
is a registered broker dealer and investment advisor with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a member of the Financial Industry
Regulatory Authority (FINRA), member of the Municipal Securities
Rulemaking Board (MSRB) and a member of the Securities Investor
Protection Corporation (SIPC).

BCS Prime Brokerage Limited, the UK regulated arm of BCS Financial
Group, provides innovative and customizable high and low touch solutions
for emerging and core global markets. Providing dealing, advisory and
prime services to professional investors, BCS combines state-of-the-art
brokerage technologies with a deep understanding of the market. BCS was
granted UK regulatory authorization by the Financial Conduct Authority
(FCA) to deal and advise on investments and hold client assets,
officially marking the launch of its international brokerage business.
BCS is the largest trader of equities and derivatives on the Moscow
exchange by turnover and has a 10%-15% market share of equity trading.

BCS Americas, Inc., a FINRA Broker-Dealer, Member NYSE and part of BCS
Global Markets, the Global Markets and Investment Banking division of
BCS Financial Group offers Russian access to all lines of the BCS
product suite for institutions based in the Americas region.
Additionally, BCS Americas provides direct access to US Equity markets
for global clients and operating divisions of BCS Global Markets.

About BCS Global Markets

BCS Global Markets is the Investment Banking division of BCS Financial
Group. BCS Financial Group is a Russian financial services sector
pioneer launching operations in 1995. BCS has a broad client base of
over 300,000 who are serviced through a branch network of roughly 100
offices with over 3,000 employees.

The Global Markets Investment Banking division was launched in early
2011 and is focused on the provision of market access, financing and
advisory, securities lending and other ancillary prime brokerage and
asset administration services.

BCS is the broker of choice for trading Russian instruments with an
absolute leadership position: For over 2 years, BCS has maintained its
dominant trading position on the Moscow Exchange, capturing more than
25% of market share in Equities, Derivatives and FX.